Improving U.S. (United States) Capability to Deploy Ground Forces to Southwest Asia in the 1990s--A Briefing

Abstract

An examination of both conventional and unconventional methods of improving U.S. capability to project forces in the 1990s. Southwest Asia is used as an example destination. The study compares mobility system additions of equal 20-year life cycle costs, both quantitatively for speed in projecting forces and qualitatively for ability to quicken deployment with warning, feasibility, our confidence to cost estimations, and the vulnerability of ports, but does not compare the vulnerability of vehicles. Lighter-than-air ships, surface effect ships, and floating airbase prepositioning are included in the comparisons. Only prepositioning allows really quick deployment, but the study concludes that no single system supplies all desirable attributes without risks and drawbacks. The Note shows the performance of two mixed systems; the methodology developed permits comparison of other mixes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA127877

Entities

People

  • P. M. Dadant

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Support
  • Construction
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Governments
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Operations
  • Security
  • Southwest Asia
  • Suez Canal
  • Surface Effect Ships
  • United States
  • Vulnerability
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design